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Riots

Images

  • Characters from the play 'The chosen people' (The Jews, Evrei), at the Avenue Theatre. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1925.
  • St George's Fields, Southwark: anti-Catholic rioters in the Gordon riots wielding sticks, displaying banners, and setting buildings on fire. Etching, 1780.
  • A rioter in the Gordon Riots has a cudgel in his hand and Newgate Prison is on fire in the background. Etching attributed to J. Gillray.
  • Above, a dagger is thrown in the direction of a priest on a platform; below, monks pointing at and showing signs of distress at the sight of a cat hanged in a priest's habit. Engraving with etching, 1812.
  • Bartholomew fair in London represented as a place where crowds of people watch entertainments inspired by the devil, and indulge in drunkenness and fighting; demons incite them to crime. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1832.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Paris and London in the eighteenth century : studies in popular protest / George Rudé.

    Rudé, George, 1910-1993 | Date: 1970
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A rioter in the Gordon Riots has a cudgel in his hand and Newgate Prison is on fire in the background. Etching attributed to J. Gillray.

    Gillray, James, 1756-1815. | Date: June 9th 1780 | Reference: 36239i
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    George Clarke, having been bludgeoned on the head in riots at an election meeting n Brentford, Middlesex, is treated by a surgeon and a physician: around them stand six doctors proposing different cures, and eight election officials playing down his illness. Etching, 1769.

    | Date: [1769] | Reference: 2477064i
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    • Online

    Men with clubs break down the door of a London brothel to take their revenge for being robbed. Engraving, ca. 1795.

    | Date: [1749?] | Reference: 27976i
    • Books

    Cholera and conflict : 19th century cholera in Britain and its social consequences / Michael Holland, Geoffrey Gill and Sean Burrell (eds.).

    | Date: 2009
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